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The only absolutes in this world are death and taxes.

Well those are the tactics of the naysayers. Pick some area of science that appears to show confusion, doubt, and disagreement and use those incidents to knock science as a whole. What these folks...

Back in "The good old days" either they didn't know about occupational hazards or if they did it was just considered the price you paid for the job you had.

At one time watch faces were hand...

As you age your immunity definitely weakens. You really don't see it until you reach around 70. My wife works with little kids and she brings all kinds of bugs home. It never used to bother me but...

As I like to say, everyone has an uncle Louie who smoked two packs of smokes a day and drinks like a fish and lived to be 95 and never saw the inside of a hospital. Some are blessed with good genes...

Much of the opioid problem isn't so much folks getting addicted trying to treat pain. Its a criminal thing. Drug distributors sending millions of doses to these little town in the middle of nowhere...

Pain meds are necessary for operations and many procedures and for many folks who are in serious chronic pain with no other alternatives.Abusing them or taking them when you don't need to is another...

I agree about big pharma but this has nothing to do with it. You have these folks running around out there stoking these anti vac fears and you read what they write and they sound very convincing but...

We shouldn't lose sight of the fact the flu vaccine is an outlier in that it's one of a very very few vaccines that can have poor effectiveness. Most give complete protection or very close to it.
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I caught Measles when I was around 2 years old. My older brother got it and the docs warned my parents to keep him away from me which they didn't do. This was around 1950 so no cures for it and in...

There are a variety of directions this thread can travel but it hasn't yet.

As long as it's a polite discussion.......

Once you get chickenpox the virus stays in your system forever. It just waits until later in life for the right conditions and comes out as shingles.

The only reason this is happening is because the drug outfits aren't developing new antibiotics because they can't get huge profits from them. At some point you'll see new classes of antibiotics...

At one time they used to paint a mark on the outside of a house or apartment if certain diseases were there which made quarantine much easier. Of course in those days they didn't have drugs they have...

In the public health game it's all in the end game. The more folks vaccinated means the fewer overall cases there are. As the number of vaccinated cases goes down the number of cases goes up as...

There is an old saying about a little knowledge about something is a very bad thing.

In that era folks thought they knew it all when in fact they knew nothing but they did what seemed logical to...

That's because there are a hundred or so varieties of the bug. Once you get one you are immune to it and only that one. So any vaccine for that has to match them all and they change over time.

I guess most folks born in the 60s and beyond have no experience or frame of reference to how short life can be and how cruel nature can be. I dare say most folks alive today are beneficiaries of...

You want a reality check? Go to an older cemetery especially in a large city and look at all the graves of young folks who died during that flu epidemic.

I blame it all on stupid people who have...